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Success is a multifaceted concept; for each person it has its own characteristics. For some it is measured by the amount of money earned, for others - by the number of completed projects, some boast about the number of countries visited, others consider themselves successful due to popularity, even with a negative connotation, some consider themselves such in family life. Despite the variety of forms, current society highlights certain qualities of a successful person.
The starting point of any success is desire
Determination
It is this character trait that allows you to follow your dream without retreating or giving up. Determination is a quality necessary to achieve success in life. Obstacles and difficulties always arise on the path of any person. And if one gives in to circumstances, agrees to a compromise and looks for simpler options, then the other continues to fight. Only determination and perseverance can achieve your goal. After all, giving up is always easy. Life always offers escape routes. You can give up your career and find a quiet, boring job. You can stop torturing yourself with workouts and buy a more comfortable sofa. It's so simple. But the personality quality necessary to achieve success in life is to persistently pursue the goal, without stopping or turning back.
Self confidence
A weak person is always afraid of losing. This scares him so much that it becomes easier to do nothing at all. Fear of rejection, fear of seeming funny, fear of looking ridiculous - all these are anchors that pull you to the bottom. But if any undertaking is scary, then how can you achieve anything in life? Self-confidence is a personality quality necessary to achieve success in life. Many great ideas were initially laughed at. Airplanes, cinema, cars, computers - all these brilliant inventions at first seemed useless and ridiculous to people. If their creators had retreated, given in to the pressure of public opinion, who knows what the world would look like today. Victory never comes immediately. Many times you will have to lose, starting again and again, without thinking about defeats. The ability to believe in yourself and not listen to spiteful critics is a quality necessary for success.
Activity
You can't achieve your goal by just sitting still. You can endlessly justify your own inaction, look for reasons why you can postpone everything for another day, for a month, for a year. Every loser can easily explain why he cannot succeed, and it sounds very convincing. Dozens, hundreds of reasons. So isn't it better to forget about excuses and just get up and do it? In any business there are difficulties. They cannot be considered a sufficient reason to abandon the goal. You just need to find a way to eliminate the obstacles and overcome the obstacles that arise along the way. Activity is another personality quality necessary to achieve success. You need to constantly look for new ways and opportunities, use every chance to change the current situation in your favor. Without this, it is simply impossible to make your life better and move towards your goal.
The ability to grow above oneself
Our life is movement. And you can climb up, or you can go down. By going with the flow, a person voluntarily gives up the chance to achieve success, which means he misses opportunities. While he stands still, others move forward. So should we be surprised later if he finishes last? Only by setting new and new goals for yourself, developing, improving yourself, can you make your life better. This doesn't necessarily apply to business or career. Even a woman who has chosen the role of a housewife can turn into a boring creature with a ladle in one hand and a rag in the other, or she can continue to develop. Attend gyms and various courses, read, study foreign languages. Then she won’t have to complain that her husband and children don’t pay attention to her. The desire for self-improvement is a personality quality that is absolutely necessary to achieve success in life.
Get inspired by other people
Successful people don't waste time and energy on envy. On the contrary, they are inspired by other people and use the experience of others for their development. Therefore, one of the habits that will set you up for a successful life is reading biographies of strong and interesting personalities, as well as watching speeches and interviews of successful people. At the same time, you should not slide into scandalous books and investigations on the topics of who was married to whom, who cheated on whom, and who was gay. If you want to be successful, your job is to follow your path to the top, and not get distracted by gossip, which is what unsuccessful people do by reading the tabloids and "hanging out" in front of TV shows that stir up scandals.
Hard work
Nothing comes easy; every achievement is the result of long and persistent efforts. Only in cinema does success come suddenly. A brilliant discovery made casually, with one stroke of the pen, a successful deal that immediately brought huge profits, an ideal figure a week later... Alas, in reality this does not happen, life does not bring anything on a platter. You can't just count on luck. Success comes only to those who spare no time and effort and work tirelessly. Successful businessmen work 18 hours a day, famous fashion models exhaust themselves with diets and hours of training in the gym. And not a day, not a month. It may take years to achieve the goal. But this is the only way to achieve the desired result. Work, work and work again. The ability to work tirelessly is a personality quality necessary to achieve success in life.
Communication skills
In any bookstore you can find dozens of books devoted to the ability to communicate with people. Hundreds of tips on how to make friends, how to win over your interlocutor, how to learn to lead a team. And this is no coincidence. The ability to communicate with people is an extremely important quality for achieving success in life. Man does not exist outside of society. Even the most brilliant scientist, having made a great discovery, will have to present it to the world and explain to everyone exactly what the advantages of his creation are. Communication is also an art, and it can be learned. Listening to the feelings of others, reading non-verbal signals, gestures and emotions is not so difficult if you make an effort. Of course, this does not mean that you need to turn into a sycophant whose only goal is to earn the approval of others. But learning to listen to people, communicate with them, make acquaintances and connections is necessary. A successful person usually has many friends and acquaintances, he is sociable, friendly and knows how to capture the attention of listeners. Sociability isn't just about being able to use social connections when things get tough. This is also help, support, a chance to lean on a friend’s shoulder if trouble knocks on the door. Sociability is a personality quality necessary to achieve success in life.
Success Specialist
Coach and author Brandon Burchard is one of the world's renowned experts on the habits of successful people. For his new book, High Performance Habits, he spent three years talking to businessmen, entrepreneurs, psychologists, and neuroscientists, finding out what habits distinguish a successful person from an unsuccessful one.
In Russia, Burchard is known for his books “The Energy of Life. 10 secrets of activating internal forces”, “Million dollar advice. Change the world and make a fortune” and “Manifesto of Motivation. Nine declarations on personal power.” Burchard is one of the world's most popular and successful development coaches. In his youth, he survived a serious car accident, suffered a brain injury and recovered with the help of neuropsychologists. Now Brandon Burchard gathers thousands of audiences, shoots motivational videos and writes articles.
We've collected helpful tips from Burchard's research. Success is not something external. Under the same initial conditions, different people achieve different results only because they think differently and react differently to the proposed situations. This means that changes in consciousness can affect the quality of life as a whole, since it is a connected chain - thoughts, reactions, actions and results. How do successful people behave?
Sanity
A person is drowning in streams of information. It pours on him from the TV screen, from the computer monitor, from the pages of newspapers. When determining one’s goals and ways to achieve them, a person carries out a lot of analytical work. And it doesn’t matter whether it concerns betting on the stock exchange or choosing a future life partner. In any case, you need to collect the facts, think about them, analyze them - and only then make a decision. This is the only way to avoid mistakes that will turn into huge problems in the future. A successful person thinks about everything in advance. He is not carried away by empty fantasies, he knows how to distinguish the real from the desired. The ability to soberly analyze a situation without succumbing to feelings and emotions is a personality quality necessary to achieve success. Dreaming, setting bright, lofty goals for yourself is one thing, but deceiving yourself by following castles in the air is quite another.
They ask a lot of questions
Successful people get to the bottom of everything. They constantly ask questions, primarily to themselves. “Why am I doing this?”, “What exactly do I want to achieve?”, “What does this give me?”, “What next step should I take?”, “Who do I want to spend time with?”, “What emotions do I want?” test?". The more we ask, the more clearly we see the full picture of our lives.
Unsuccessful people, on the contrary, try to ask as few questions as possible and delve less into their feelings, goals, and desires. For them, it's like Pandora's box: the answer to one question leads to 10 others, the answers to which can be unpleasant or complex. Why create difficulties for yourself if you can simply not think about it and live by inertia?
Creativity
Everything in this world has already been invented before us, what is the point of making efforts to reinvent another wheel? This is exactly what people often think when they try to invent something new, unusual and original and face failure. But they are wrong. The world is full of opportunities, the main thing is to be able to see them. Original thinking, the ability to generate new ideas, invent and invent are qualities necessary to achieve success. You can and should invent a wheel! Dozens of companies with million-dollar turnover produce tires for cars. Their employees work every day to come up with a new wheel. Any new idea, any original proposal is another step forward. Even if not all of them are good, the main thing is not to give up. This is the only way to find the only right solution that will turn your dream into reality.
Notice beauty and good fortune
When we live automatically, we don’t notice a lot. Successful people know how to stop and enjoy the view from the window, a beautiful sunset, the smile of a stranger on the street. Not only pay attention, but also react. For example, calling a colleague or friend to look at something beautiful or pleasant, smiling back at a stranger. And another important point is the ability to pay attention, appreciate moments of success and share them. How often do you say, for example, about your husband/wife: “I am so lucky to have him/her by my side”? Or: “I’m so lucky that I chose a business that brings me pleasure!”? Successful people focus their attention on such moments, while unsuccessful people take everything good either for granted or as free cheese in a mousetrap, expecting a catch.
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